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Sharpen your Italian grammar with skill-building exercises
If you want to be proficient in Italian, you eventually have to clear the bothersome hurdle of grammar. The best way to conquer this obstacle is through hands-on experience. Covering all facets of Italian grammar--from prepositions and pronouns to verbal forms and tenses--Italian Grammar Drills helps you learn often-perplexing topics with fun and engaging exercises.
This comprehensive book features:
- More than 200 drills that demonstrate how the Italian grammar system works
- An answer key to give you immediate clarification on any concept
- The flexibility to learn at your own pace
Topics include:
Adjectives and adverbs * Comparatives and superlatives * Present tense versus past tense * Prepositions * Passive voice * Verbal expressions and constructions * and more
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Sharpen your Italian grammar with skill-building exercises
If you want to be proficient in Italian, you eventually have to clear the
bothersome hurdle of grammar. The best way to conquer this obstacle is
through hands-on experience. Covering all facets of Italian grammar--from
prepositions and pronouns to verbal forms and tenses--Italian Grammar
Drills helps you learn often-perplexing topics with fun and engaging
exercises.
This comprehensive book features:
More than 200 drills that demonstrate how the Italian grammar system works
An answer key to give you immediate clarification on any concept
The flexibility to learn at your own pace
Topics include:
Adjectives and adverbs * Comparatives and superlatives * Present tense
versus past tense * Prepositions * Passive voice * Verbal expressions and
constructions * and more
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40 of 41 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is absolutely fabulous. It contains all aspects of Italian grammar, and it answers the `why is that there?', `What does this mean?' questions. It is very simple to follow as well, and has a lot of exercises to help drill the grammar point's home. There are some grammar books out there that cost around £15.00-25.00 that aren't a patch on this cheap but very detailed book. It answers everything!
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I'm studying Italian at undergraduate level from scratch. I was struggling to keep up with what I was being taught and so I bought this book. It's really useful. Everything is clearly explained, there's lots of exercises to help you to practice what you have just learned and the answers to the exercises are in the back of the book. I'd recommend this book to anyone studying Italian academically or even if you just want to learn the language for fun.
33 of 34 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is not a book for beginners. Although it clearly explains very basic concepts, each chapter quickly progresses to a level that is (a) not required by a beginner (b) too difficult for a beginner.
As early as Exercise 16 on page 26(there are well over 200 Exercises and the book is 350 pages long exclud answers), the student is required to translate into Italian sentences such as "Please close the large door at the bottom of the stairs". By Exercise 22 on page 37 you need to be happy with the use of past participles in order to translate into Italian sentences such as "She has planted many flowers in the garden". In addition, by this point the text is freely using the imperfect and future tenses. A fairly good vocabulary is also required.
However for those who have more than a rudimentary knowledge, this book is extremely useful, although still lacking in some areas eg when discussing diminutives and pejoratives etc it does not give any guidance as to which ending to use, but then expects you to happily translate a dozen words into the diminutive, pejorative and augmentative in Exercise 17. In addition the book states that the augmentative is usually used in the masculine form even when referring to feminine subjects. In Exercise 17 a whole bundle of feminine words need to be translated and not one of them translates into the masculine.
Despite this, I have learnt a lot and realised that there are many exceptions to the basic rules that I had no knowledge of eg not every word ending in a will change to e in the plural.
I would say that this book is suitable for someone who has studied beginners Italian for at least a year, who is confident with the present tense and past participles and who has a fairly good vocab base.
As early as Exercise 16 on page 26(there are well over 200 Exercises and the book is 350 pages long exclud answers), the student is required to translate into Italian sentences such as "Please close the large door at the bottom of the stairs". By Exercise 22 on page 37 you need to be happy with the use of past participles in order to translate into Italian sentences such as "She has planted many flowers in the garden". In addition, by this point the text is freely using the imperfect and future tenses. A fairly good vocabulary is also required.
However for those who have more than a rudimentary knowledge, this book is extremely useful, although still lacking in some areas eg when discussing diminutives and pejoratives etc it does not give any guidance as to which ending to use, but then expects you to happily translate a dozen words into the diminutive, pejorative and augmentative in Exercise 17. In addition the book states that the augmentative is usually used in the masculine form even when referring to feminine subjects. In Exercise 17 a whole bundle of feminine words need to be translated and not one of them translates into the masculine.
Despite this, I have learnt a lot and realised that there are many exceptions to the basic rules that I had no knowledge of eg not every word ending in a will change to e in the plural.
I would say that this book is suitable for someone who has studied beginners Italian for at least a year, who is confident with the present tense and past participles and who has a fairly good vocab base.
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The best Italian Drill Book
Paola Nanni-Tate's books are really good. The grammar explanations are excellent and there are plenty and varied exercises. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Sam Covington
Not well thought out-badly adapted for the Kindle
The very first set of exercises illustrates the problem with this book. It explains nicely how to 'sex' an italian word eg. Read more
Published 9 months ago by E. WOOLSTON
Italian Grammar Drills
Very helpful. Not the most exciting of things to do but necessary to get good at a language!
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Published 9 months ago by Caraline S. Davies
Brilliant!
I found this book amazing in its coverage of grammar, and practical exercises. I would classify it as being at an Intermediate level, as, although it deals with beginners' grammar,... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Vita
Really useful
The first thing to say is - don't expect a small, notebook size package to arrive on the doormat. It's 27 x 21cm - and with packaging, you may well have to pick it up at the local... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Grandma J.
Helpful
This book is really good if you struggle with grammar and patterns like me. It could do with a little more explanation on how the patterns work, but otherwise it's useful.
Published 18 months ago by Ms. S. B. Wilkinson
Excellent practice
This is great practice for those who have learned some Italian but need to review. There have been a couple of instances in which I find that exercises require something that... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Suparna Gupta
Grammar drills
Good practic but you need to have a basic knowledge of the language otherwise you just wont understand all of it.
Published 21 months ago by Thought for the day
Working through the minefield of a foreign language!!!
I recently purchased this item hoping that it would help me to come to grips with the intricacies of Italian grammer. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Cassie
NOT For Advanced but still good revision
Despite the fact that I found this book extremely useful for revising prepositions and even passato remoto, it is NOT really for advanced Italian speakers and writers. Read more
Published on 22 May 2010 by Katsam
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